In that series of STNG Picard was captured and tortured by the Cardasians (no relation) who tried to break his spirit by insisting that there were 5 bright lights pointing at him when there were only 4. If Picard told the truth he would be tortured. They relentlessly bully him. Agree with his tormentors that there are 5 lights and they promised to stop the torture. The final scene below shows Picard defiantly telling the truth just as he seemed about to break.
That particular episode stayed with me. Its relevant to our current challenges with the progressive mindset.
It's a mindset that refuses to accept that people don't like their ideas. Progs believe that words have power over facts. If they simply just change the words to something pleasant or even untrue they believe they will have achieved consent to their various unpalatable and unworkable plans. The very name for their movement, Progressive, is an example of this very tactic since Socialist or Liberal are widely understood terms. Who doesn't like progress right?
I'm not the only one moved by that episode of Star Trek. Comparisons online have been made to Orwell's 1984 where Big Brother demanded that 2 + 2 = 5. Orwell explains it beautifully:
What then? Jenner is a woman. Dolezal is black. Harper is a dictator. Khadr is a hero.“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?”
Israelis are Nazis. Carbon is pollution. The grass is blue. The Sky is green. -and so on and so forth...
There are four lights!
Caitlyn Jenner is a man. He has a Y chromosome in every cell of his body. This is an accepted scientific definition of a male. Jenner competed in the men's Olympics when he had he appearance of a man. His surgical transformation, which was heralded by the left as bravery, his choice of clothes, his feelings, his make up and whatever pronouns are used to describe him have no bearing on the fact that his gender is male.
There are multiples of entire academic departments dedicated to insisting, not proving, but insisting that men and women are whatever they think they are. Science be damned. Facts are oppression.
There are four lights!
My first encounter with progressives was in first grade. My teacher was presumably educated in one of these places. Higher learning they call it. Mrs. Progressive showed me the true face of social progress early on. She insisted that Killer Whales were actually Orcas. Indeed they are, but she also insisted that there was no such thing as a Killer Whale. I was really into things that kill mind you. I loved sharks, tigers, fighter jets and Killer Whales of course. I knew all about them.
So when I presented Mrs. Progressive with a children's book right from the school library with "Killer Whales" printed on the cover and the glorious monster depicted there she simply refused to see it. The book is wrong she said meaning the entire world was wrong too. I said that she was wrong and she even smiled at this chance to brainwash another hapless student. I resist these sort of narrative building lies to this day.
These days the truth is whatever you think it is. Well at least if it annoys conservatives. The God delusion isn't tolerated for example unless of course your God is named Allah.
How about race? Most people are surprised to find there is no such thing as race in science. We can determine lineages far back into prehistory with genetics but no one can determine the pigmentation of those long lost people. But race is a social construct say the sociologists. It exists in the mind and therefore it exists. That's how we end up with Rachel Dolezal becoming black because that is what she thinks she is. She went pretty far with it in fact much farther than most real black people. She became a president of an NAACP chapter. There is no reason a white person can't be. But she also railed against white actors portraying black people. Would it be ok if they identified as black? She might have made that helpful suggestion as she was busy tearing people down. What if one of these actors actually did identify as black? Is Dolezal the racist then? Not if she doesn't' identify as one I guess.
Perhaps criminals can start identifying as innocents as Omar Khadr seems to? ISIS seems to take in rich kids who identify as Mujaheddin readily enough but Pakistani ISIS recruits complain that all they do is clean latrines. Obviously they don't identify properly.
I could go on but this post has to end somewhere. If you've read this far and still don't get it then you should probably go back to your food cubes like a good drone. Progressive/Liberal/Socialist doublespeak knows no bounds. The truth is quite a large advantage however. They will not break us.
There are four lights!
Edit: I clarified with a few changed words here and there. Internet custom is to declare edits.
